Rocket Ship Sandwich

Posted on 5 Mar ’11 by Sarah

This rocket ship sandwich idea was inspired by a blog called Little Food Junction, and turned out to be an awesome project to do with my toddler. Replace the boring PB&J, take just a few more minutes of your time to prepare and slice the ingredients, then invite your little one into the kitchen to help you put together something exciting to eat for lunch. Use honey and peanut butter to serve as glue for the fruit. All the unused fruit became fruit salad for my husband and I.

Since my son loves rocket ships…

Bread, Peanut Butter, Honey, kiwi, blueberries, banana, apple, strawberry

St. Patrick’s Day Truffles

Posted on 1 Mar ’11 by Sarah

The experiment: Homemade vs. Store Bought

How time consuming? More cost effective? Just as delicious? I have never made truffles before and I was up for a challenge. I found a very simple recipe, calculated the cost to make, and compared them to professional truffles.

Truffle Mix for St. Patrick's Day

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A Fishy Puff Pastry Feast

Posted on 25 Feb ’11 by Sarah

I have been on a recent kick of making our usual food dishes into something more fun and pretty to eat. It makes my family a little more happy when they sit down at the dinner table. We try to eat one seafood meal a week so this time I tried decorating with puff pastry.

I chose a recipe by Rachel Ray called Salmon En Croute. Since it’s dinner for 2 and one toddler in this house… I halved the recipe, used 1 sheet of puff pastry. I also made a few ingredient changes, including a generous helping of chopped fresh spinach instead of the parsley. Rather than making individual portions, I created one large family style puff pastry fish. This dish was extremely tasty, thank you Rachel Ray! I will definitely be making this one again.

My 2 year old son also had a blast watching me build this fish. He helped with cutting out the circles for the scales and absolutely loved “painting the fish” with the egg wash. Overall, it took about 15 minutes to assemble (after preparing the ingredients).
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Decorative Bread

Posted on 19 Feb ’11 by Sarah

We live in the bay area and when sightseeing in the city we love to go by the Boudin shop window to check out the incredible sour dough breads on display in the shapes of all sorts of animals. I have always wanted to try it out myself, I mean how difficult can it be? I found out not very, but it will take LOTS of practice before my bread creations start looking like Boudins! I also found some cool examples on the web regarding bread painting (specifically by Chef Tess), so I incorporated that technique into this experiment as well. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with the fun creations I was able to turn out!
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